Asthma cure on the horizon?

Millions of people suffer from asthma, a frightening disease that makes you feel like you’re drowning. Using both mouse and human cells – and a humanized mouse to show how human type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) work in the body, researchers at Janssen Research and Development, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School are figuring out ILC2’s role in asthma. Their findings have important implications in the quest for effective asthma therapies!